Four-year-old startup Databricks raised another $140 million to solve the hardest problem in AI

Four-year-old startup Databricks just raised another $ 140 million in venture funding for a total of $ 247 million. Its six cofounders launched the company only after they couldn’t give away the software they invented for free.  With the new money, they are working on a “Slack for AI” that solves the problem of a […]

A Four-Year-Old Boy Used Siri to Save His Unconscious Mother’s Life

Image: Apple When a young boy identified only as Roman couldn’t wake up his unconscious mother, he did what any astute, technologically-adept four-year-old would do: He used his mother’s finger to unlock her phone, and then asked Siri to call emergency services. The boy’s actions saved his mother, but the incident exposes some dark and […]